Correction to: Biotechnol Biofuels (2019) 12:15 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13068-019-1353-7

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported the omission of one author name.

C. Neal Stewart Jr. was not included as an author during production process. The publishers apologise for this error. The full author list is given in this correction article. The original article [1] has been updated.